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Wednesday, October 02, 2013

2013

A thief early Tuesday morning made off with an employee's purse after entering a propped-open back door at RaceTrac, 2625 Atlanta Highway, Athens-Clarke police said.
The purse and its contents had a total value of $566, police said.

A Bogart resident was hospitalized Tuesday evening after his motor scooter was struck from behind by a car on Atlanta Highway, Athens-Clarke police said.
The scooter was travelling west and approaching Epps Bridge Parkway at about 7:15 p.m.

WASHINGTON — U.S. lawmakers from both parties have expressed a willingness to give President Barack Obama's outreach to Iran a chance to end to Tehran's nuclear standoff with the West, but at the same time they are crafting tough new U.S. economic sanctions to further isolate the Islamic republic.

ATLANTA- A man accused of slapping a crying toddler on a plane will plead guilty, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
An email from federal prosecutors did not say what charge Joe Rickey Hundley will plead guilty to during an afternoon hearing.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.- Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Georgia congressman John Lewis are among six people set to receive Harvard University's highest honor in the field of African and African-American studies. Harvard will honor its W.E.B.

Brooklyn Durham has been found and is safe, Athens-Clarke police reported Thursday.
The 15-year-old Athens girl went missing on Sept. 30. She had last been seen at Cedar Shoals High School after her sixth period class.

WASHINGTON- The roiling debate over the U.S. government shutdown is extending to Twitter, Facebook and Instagram as fed-up Americans turn to social media to register their disgust with federal lawmakers for shutting down the government.

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Police near Atlanta are investigating an attack on a group of women as they protested on an interstate overpass and carried signs calling for President Barack Obama's impeachment.

The women told police they were demonstrating on the Steve Reynolds Boulevard overpass in Gwinnett County on Saturday, when a man pulled up beside them. They said he pointed a gun at one of them and splashed another with an unknown liquid.

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — In eight years, Brian Kent has taken his military consulting business from the garage of his home to a premier office building with a view of Fayetteville's most gorgeous park splashed below his corner window. But his eyes Tuesday were glued to the TV on the wall and unfolding coverage of the government shutdown.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — As passengers took off their shoes and waited to go through security at the Jacksonville International Airport, a man in a coat, boots and sunglasses tried to bypass the checkpoint, then told an agent he had a bomb in his backpack, authorities and a witness said.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The British Columbia Coroners Service said Wednesday investigators found a spoon with drug residue and a used hypodermic needle in the hotel room where "Glee" actor Cory Monteith was found dead in July.

DANDRIDGE, Tenn. — A bus taking a church group home to North Carolina blew a tire, veered across a highway median and crashed into a sport utility vehicle and tractor-trailer Wednesday in a fiery wreck that killed eight people, authorities said.

They were mystery diseases that had stumped doctors for years — adults with strange symptoms and children with neurological problems, mental slowness or muscles too weak to let them stand. Now scientists say they were able to crack a quarter of these cases by decoding the patients' genes.

MILAN — Silvio Berlusconi's failed attempt to topple the Italian government has left him weaker than ever, zapped of the aura of invincibility that has surrounded him for two decades as he faces the possible loss of his Senate seat and a ban from politics.

The pressure is on for the federal government and states running their own health insurance exchanges to get the systems up and running after overloaded websites and jammed phone lines frustrated consumers for a second day as they tried to sign up for coverage using the new marketplaces.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama brought congressional leaders to the White House on Wednesday for the first time since a partial government shutdown began, but there were no signs of progress toward ending an impasse that has idled 800,000 federal workers and curbed services around the country.

NEW YORK — George Clooney knows the country is going through a tough time with the partial government shutdown. But the actor is optimistic that "cooler heads will prevail" and things will get back to normal.

NEW YORK- Tom Clancy, whose high-tech, Cold War thrillers such as "The Hunt for Red October" and "Patriot Games" made him the most widely read and influential military novelist of his time, has died. He was 66.

NEW YORK (AP) — Shaky camera footage depicts the gory scene: A driver who police say was frightened when a group of motorcyclists swarmed his Range Rover plowed through them, striking a rider in a purple T-shirt and black helmet.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Jacksonville International Airport in Florida has reopened after authorities found two suspicious packages — one they said was destructive — that led to an evacuation and a shutdown for hours.

There was no immediate word early Wednesday about arrests and travelers were advised to check with their airlines regarding flight information.

The airport was evacuated around 6 p.m. Tuesday after police found a suspicious package in the terminal and another in a nearby parking garage. It reopened just before 11 p.m.

They have become a defining characteristic of the roadside, wedged in among the malls and fast-food franchises, barracks-like rows of buildings with small garage doors, surrounded by a fence. A gated enclave for excess stuff.

Tennessee sent out an email to fans earlier this week trying to sell the limited amount of tickets left for the game and included this: "See the debut of the new Smokey Gray jerseys."
Georgia tight end Jay Rome wasn't too impressed.

As one of the NBA's most valuable sixth men and a nine-year veteran in a league that often doesn't treasure longevity, Lou Williams has absolutely no regrets about forgoing a college career at Georgia to enter the 2005 draft.

In his 35th year at the helm of the Georgia women’s basketball team, it’s likely that Hall of Fame coach Andy Landers will have to call on every trick and resource in his considerably large book if the Lady Bulldogs are to reach their stated goal of reaching the NCAA tournament for the 31st time.

Entering last season's post season, Prince Avenue Christian had the element of surprise on its side.
Now, the Wolverines are one of the teams to beat.
"We feel like we have more of a target on our back," Prince Avenue coach Lacy McClendon said.

ATLANTA - It's been a while since either team played a truly meaningful game.
The Los Angeles Dodgers took control of the NL West with an amazing two and a half-month stretch and could let off the gas over the final weeks.

When a firm becomes the subject of a news story its stock price is usually affected. Whether positive or negative, newly publicized details about a company tend to attract investor attention and move the stock price based on the article’s sentiment.

National Home Movie Day 2013 will be celebrated locally Oct. 19 from 2 -4 p.m. at the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries on the University of Georgia campus. The UGA Libraries’ Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection will sponsor the event.

When Mercyland officially called it quits back in 1991, band members had quietly made the decision six months earlier. The punk rock power trio secretly played swan song shows around the country, not telling their fans of the impending breakup.

LEAVING TOWN BATTLE OF THE YEAR: A hip-hop mogul enlists a hard-luck ex-basketball coach and an all-star dance crew to win an international dance tournament in which Americans have not triumphed in 15 years. 1 hr. 49; PG-13.